Colin Kaepernick almost certainly will not be starting NFL games this fall unless an injury somewhere along the way forces him into the lineup. However, Kaepernick – despite rumors that he isn’t that interested in football anymore and wants to pursue more social justice work instead – is still preparing like he’s going to be a starting quarterback.

In a letter to Peter King of TheMMQB.com, Kaepernick’s trainer, Josh Hidalgo, dispelled the notion that Kaepernick isn’t committed to football and said he’s been training hard with him in New York City.

“Colin has been there since January, training with me five days a week,” Hidalgo wrote. “We have been getting ready for football as if he was a starting quarterback for an NFL team. When I read that people don’t know if Colin wants to play football … this guy’s been doing it five hours a day, five days a week, like he has a starting NFL job. And we don’t take days off.”

Kaepernick remain unsigned after opting out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers earlier this year. However, the Seahawks have expressed interest in Kaepernick as a backup option behind Russell Wilson and even reportedly reached out to his agent last week.

Hidalgo said any team interested should visit Kaepernick and see for themselves the work he’s put in.

“We knew he was going to be dissected,” Hidalgo said.” We knew any chink in the armor was going to be dissected, so there are no chinks in the armor. We knew this was the be-all, end-all for us. Colin came in around 220 pounds; he lost all that weight last year because he was recovering from three surgeries. And now he’s 230, a solid 230, and he’s eating perfectly.

“I would just ask any team wondering anything about Colin: Come and see him. Come to the gym. Talk to him. They’ll see he’s in as good shape as a quarterback can be in. He’s ready to lead a team.”

The Seahawks would certainly make sense on many levels. They saw him frequently when he was at his best with the 49ers. Current backup Trevone Boykin has had continued legal issues this offseason as well.

If Hidalgo’s picture of Kaepernick’s current situation is accurate, then whatever team he signs with could be getting a solid quarterback on their roster. Given how few and far between good quarterbacks are in the league currently, the team that decides to sign him could get a steal.

You all need to stop picking on Trevon Boykin and his ‘legal’ issues. The ‘issue’ is a couple years old, should be resolved like 99% of them, with a plea bargain and the second issue was related to the first and didn’t do anything.

Now, on a football level, The Seahawks don’t have a real b/u QB right now on the roster, so maybe they should look at Kaep, but then again it’s not like Russell is injury prone. He hasn’t missed a relevant snap in his career, even with the high school OLine the team gives him the last couple of years.

How much money is Kaepernick paying you to write 3-6 articles about him every day? Nobody but you cares about this kid. No matter how much you try to spin it, he just doesn’t have the talent to play in the league anymore. Same with Tebow. Same with Manziel.

How do you prepare like a starting QB without opponents to be studying, starting WRs to be working with, schemes to be memorizing, and everything else involved with starting? Oh… he’s just training, like ALL QBs do? Gotcha.

Let’s clear up one thing for the reading challenged commenters. The article says that Kaep trains five hours a day, five days a week. Nowhere in the article does it state how many hours a day Kaep trains the other two days a week. In grade school math class it’s called a word problem. The value for the other two days exists in a range that spans from 0 to 24 hours. Tomorrow we’ll delve into some science. (We’ll go slow so nobody falls too far behind.)

Training 5 hours a day in the GM. Kaepernick plays QB but trains like a wide receiver or running back. Its like he can’t get over that 2012 game vs Green Bay and seems to believe that if he can be a little faster and a little stronger he could do that to everyone and his remedial level passing skills won’t matter.

bannedfromchoirpractice says:
May 17, 2017 10:07 AM
One thing is certain: a person of color will be the victim of police brutality way before Kaep gets signed to an NFL team again
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More likely a cop will be killed in the line of duty before that, most likely protecting people regardless of color.

The bad apples need weeded out, just like everywhere else, but we send these people into war zones and tell them don’t dare use your weapon unless you absolutely, positively know for certain your perp is armed, and even then we’ll run you through the wringer. After Nam all the hippies called our soldiers baby killers. Well now that’s frowned upon so they turn their ire onto cops. Just once I’d like to see these guys like Kaep go through a use of force seminar to see just how quickly things go from normal to code red. It ain’t like the movies.